Archive for January, 2005
Monday, January 31st, 2005
On Sunday night I fired off an email to the editor of the West Australian newspaper. I was angry at the preferential treatment outlaw bikers get over ordinary law abiding citizens.
Basically a well known biker died recently and at the funeral the bikers were refusing to wear helmets and stop for red lights as a [...]
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Sunday, January 30th, 2005
This week I start my role as a youth minisry coach with the Baptist churches of WA working 12 hours a week. My job is simply to meet with local youth pastors and help them be more effective in their roles.
Its not about influencing them to be like me or to buy into my psycho [...]
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Sunday, January 30th, 2005
I’m no fan, but I have been impressed with his gutsy efforts over the last week – even stayed up late to watch him!
We’ve invited a few of the neighbours round to watch the final at 5.00pm today. Tnnis starts at 5.00 or so and we’ll order pizza for 6.00, if its not all over [...]
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Sunday, January 30th, 2005
Today I woke up and rather than looking out the window, seeing a warm sunny day and launching the boat I said to Danelle that I’d like to ‘go to church’.
That’s a tad unusual for me as I am not part of any Sunday church these days. (Our church meets on a Monday night.) [...]
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Friday, January 28th, 2005
I had a really good conversation today with both Ross Clifford and Phillip Johnson the two authors of Jesus and The Gods of the New Age.
They were both very helpful in explaining how to connect with people at the upcoming healing festival. After 13 years of involvement in this field they really did have some [...]
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Friday, January 28th, 2005
A few days ago we picked up a whole stack of 35 mm slides from my parents of my pre – teen years and the time we spent in Nth Ireland.
Danelle has been sorting thru them and we have been projecting them on the wall over the last few nights.
We have both observed something [...]
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Thursday, January 27th, 2005
About 13 years ago now I was serving in my final year of youth minstry at Scarborough Baptist Church and some of the young guys in the church decided to play a rather inappropriate practical joke on Danelle and I. It’s a long story and would sound pretty lame if I tried to describe it [...]
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Thursday, January 27th, 2005
download marrying man the dvd I’ve started doing some work on this whole area of ethics and find it quite invigorating. As one who likes to think and enjoys intellectual challenge the area of ethics definitely does that.
I’m in the process of exploring various ethical frameworks and overviews as I sense that getting a [...]
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2005
A few days ago I spotted a sign on the local Supa Valu notice board advertising a ‘healing festival’ to be held in the local area over the weekend of Feb 19 & 20. There are over 40 different forms of healing going to be doing their thing over those two days… but I didn’t [...]
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2005
If I weren’t such a cheapskate and consigned to the ‘basic’ level of typepad I’d probably change the colour and design of my blog about now. I like a change every now and then and I reckon its about time.
What I have done is add a few new links in the ‘other blogs I read’ [...]
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